Ingham

Lower Herbert
Also known as Palm Creek, it was renamed Ingham in 1879 after the first sugar grower in the district.

Aplin, Graeme, Foster, S.G., Mckernan, Michaely, Australians Events and Places, Sydney, 1987, pp.325.


Palm Creek
Also known as Lower Herbert, it was renamed Ingham in 1879 after the first sugar grower in the district.

Aplin, Graeme, Foster, S.G., Mckernan, Michaely, Australians Events and Places, Sydney, 1987, p.325.

Ewan
Originally called Mossville, after L. Moss who discovered silver-lead here, this forgotten mining town was surveyed in 1894 at 19°07′145°50′, about 100 km west of Townsville.

Hooper, Colin, Angor to Zillmanton stories of North Queensland's deserted towns, Townsville, 1998, p.335.


Lotophagian's Country
Now called the Valley of Lagoons, in the centre of Cape York Peninsula.

Wells, William Henry, A Geographical Dictionary or Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies, Sydney, 1848, pp.240-1.


Mount Eulah
Now called Mount Harry, about 205 km west of Ingham. Eulah was an Aborigine accompanying the Jardine Brothers.

Jack, Robert, Logan, Northmost Australia, 2 vols, London, 1921, p.290, p.292.


Mount Irwin
Now called Mount Esk, about 170 km east of Ingham.

Steele, J.G., Brisbane Town in Convict Days, St. Lucia, 1975, p.147.


Numbal
Named from an Aboriginal word said to mean rocks; this forgotten township at the head of navigation of the Murray River was surveyed in 1890 at 18°03' 145°56', about 25km north west of Cardwell.

Hooper, Colin, Angor to Zillmanton stories of North Queensland's deserted towns, Townsville, 1998, p.305.


Port Hinchinbrook
This name was chenged in 1864 to Cardwell after Edward Cardwell, Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Aplin, Graeme, Foster, S.G., Mckernan, Michaely, Australians Events and Places, Sydney, 1987, p.323.


Warringha
This forgotten township at the head of navigation of the Murray River was surveyed in 1897 at 18°07′145°58′, about 20 km north west of Cardwell.

Hooper, Colin, Angor to Zillmanton stories of North Queensland's deserted towns, Townsville, 1998, p.309.


Wickham River
So named in 1839 by the commander of HMS Beagle, John Clements Wickham. In 1845 Leichhardt discovered and named the Burdekin River after Mrs. Mary Ann Burdekin to acknowledge the assistance she had given to his expedition. In 1860, George Dalrymple showed that the Burdekin and the Wickham were the same river and the former name was used.

Chisholm, Alec H., Strange New World…, Sydney, 1955, p.164.

Hooper, Colin, Angor to Zillmanton stories of North Queensland's deserted towns, Townsville, 1998, p.333.